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When do you consider it too late after surgery to offer adjuvant chemotherapy for colon adenocarcinoma?

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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Retrospective studies suggest that there are diminishing returns for adjuvant chemotherapy beginning 2-3 months after surgical resection. This is almost certainly a continuous variable, so I don't interpret this data to mean that one should never consider adjuvant chemotherapy after that time point....

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